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The No TikTok on Government Devices Act was originally introduced in 2020 by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent on August 6, 2020. [3] The bill ( S. 1143 ) was reintroduced on April 15, 2021, by Senator Hawley and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent again on December 14, 2022.
In June 2022 reports emerged that ByteDance employees in China could access US data and repeatedly accessed the private information of TikTok users, [69] [70] [71] TikTok employees were cited saying that "everything is seen in China," while one director claimed a Beijing-based engineer referred to as a "Master Admin" has "access to everything."
Lawmakers making allegations against TikTok fail to mention that the United States itself surveils non-US nationals under Section 702 of FISA. [111] The types of data collected by TikTok are also collected by other social media platforms and sold through brokers to private buyers and reportedly government agencies as well, without oversight.
TikTok is a social media application popular for its short-form mobile videos. Known for its scrolling algorithm, TikTok allows users to post videos that range from 3 seconds to 10 minutes long.
Politicians won't stop trying to make a TikTok ban happen, however. We went here with Trump, who tried to ban TikTok via executive order in 2020. (The courts said no, and the Biden administration ...
ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. [ 7] Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo, and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing apps TikTok and Douyin.
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 352-65 to ban the social media app TikTok in the U.S. unless its parent company — Beijing-based ByteDance — agrees to sell it.. Supporters ...
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, [a] [3] is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. [4] It can be accessed with a smart phone app.